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Winner Teeners won the sportsmanship award at the state A tournament Sunday in Lennox.

This is what one of the umpires (Johnny Kirchner) at the state tournament wrote about the Winner team and fans.

As an umpire at this tournament I had the privilege of working 2 of the 3 games your team played in. I am sure they came to Lennox planning on bringing home the class A VFW championship. They certainly could have done that because they have the talent. But more important, in my eyes, they played hard no matter the hand they were dealt. Great kids, tremendous coaches, and an awesome fan base. This isn’t necessarily a team award for the kids, our decision was based on fan support and reaction also.

Winner is a classy town with a great group of kids and coaches.

Congrats, it is well deserved and your community should be proud of the group that came to Lennox.

Reed Harter of the Winner/Colome Legion baseball team was named to the Class B all state baseball first team.  Harter had a .333 batting average and finished with seven RBIs to go along with 14 stolen bases.

Drew DeMers of Winner/Colome was named to the Class B all state second team. DeMers hit. 517 on the season.

Ty Bolton of Winner/Colome was named second team pitcher.

Reed Harter of the Winner/Colome Legion baseball team played in the all star game in Lake Norden on Aug. 1.
Harter played on the south team and was 1-3 at the plate.   Harter pitched one inning and had two strikeouts.

Winner/Colome amateur baseball team finished second in the Sunshine League as they were nipped 10-9 by undefeated Alexandria Friday in Parkston.

After the Pheasants tied the game in the ninth inning, Alexandria hit a solo home run for the win.

Winner/Colome will play in the state tournament which starts Friday in Mitchell. The Pheasants will play Northville at 11 a.m. on Friday.

Rusty Arthur and Lisa Halverson won the championship of the Winner Area Chamber of Commerce golf meet on Friday. They shot a 35.

Second place in the first flight went to Jamie Root and Addy Root with a 36 and third to Ty Vandenhoek and Bert Shields, 38.

Second flight winners were: Jeff Grossenburg and Robin Grossenburg, 40; Jeremy and Rhonda Schroeder, 42 and Cody Haiar and Roger Farley, 42.

Third flight winners were: Jeff and Sharon Schramm, 44; C.A. and Twila Owen, 45 and Chad Peterson and Tom Renner, 46.

There were 28 teams in the tournament.

Reed Harter of the Winner/Colome Legion baseball team played in the American Legion baseball all-star game.

Players selected were from nominations submitted by their American Legion coaches.

Winner/Colome amateur baseball team defeated Parkston Mudcats 4-3 in district play Sunday in Parkston.

Derek Graesser was the winning pitcher.

Graesser had a solo home run to put the Pheasants ahead 3-1 in the third inning.  Austin Calhoon also hit a solo home run in the victory. He also had single. Dillon Lambley hit a double, single, and drove in a run for the Pheasants.

Winner/Colome will play the Alexandria Angels on Friday at 8 p.m. in Parkston in the championship game.

Michelle Lovejoy and Teresa Marts won the championship flight of the 2 lady best ball golf tournament held Saturday at Winner Country Club. The pair shot a 75.

Second place in the championship flight went to Stacey Halverson and Victoria Gronlund with a 76.

Winning the first flight were Kay Bolton and Twila Owen with an 87. Second place went to Deb Godel and Terami Nespor with an 87.

Pin prize winners were Twila Owen, closest to pin on No. 3; Addy Root, longest drive on No. 4; Teresa Marts, longest putt on No. 7 and Addy Root, longest putt on No. 9.

Winner/Colome amateur baseball team won their opener in the District 5B tournament Thursday in Parkston. The Pheasants won 10-0.

J. J. Farner pitched a complete game allowing three hits and no runs while striking out six.  Austin Calhoon had two hits and an RBI including a double. Geno Katz had a single and an RBI for Winner/Colome.

Winner/Colome Legion baseball team fell in two games in the state Class B tournament in Webster.

On Friday afternoon, Milbank defeated Winner/Colome 6-2.

Kelly O’Bryan started on the mound and went 8 innings giving up 5 runs (3 earned) on 10 hits, 2 walks and 7 strikeouts.  Drew DeMers pitched the 9th inning giving up 1 unearned run on 1 hit.  Drew DeMers and Levin McClanahan had RBI singles.

The Royals and Milbank had met twice before during the regular season with each winning a game.

The Winner/Colome Legion played in Saturday’s elimination game and fell 7-3 to Madison.

For Winner/Colome, Carter Brickman started on the mound and pitched four innings giving up 3 runs on 6 hits, 1 walk and no strikeouts. Reed Harter came on in relief and pitched four innings giving up 4 runs (2 earned) on 4 hits, 1 walk and 5 strikeouts.